Killer Spent Time at Mosque and Memorizing the Quran
Syed Rizwan Farook was heavily involved in his local mosque and focused his energies on memorizing the Quran, he wrote in a short-lived dating profile in 2013. “I spend much of my free time in the ma...
Killer Radicalized
One of two people accused of killing 14 in California apparently pledged allegiance to a leader of Islamic State militant group, two U.S. government sources said on Friday, as intelligence officials i...
Secret Life of the Killers
Early Wednesday morning, Syed Rizwan Farook asked his mother for the sort of favor grandmothers love to grant: A few hours of baby-sitting. Farook told her that he and his wife, Tashfeen, had a doctor...
ISIS Celebrates Shooting
Islamic State terrorists cheered the deaths of 14 people Wednesday at a social services center in San Bernardino, Calif., with the "#America_Burning" hashtag in Arabic on Twitter. The hashtag was als...
Some Past Mass Shooters
In response to Robert Dear Jr.’s murder of three people at a Colorado Springs shopping mall last week, The New York Times exulted: “Even as politicians and those in Congress pump up public fears at t...
Mass Shootings and Gun Control
Passing more laws doesn’t keep terrorists from getting guns. On Sunday, Hillary Clinton slammed Republicans for not being serious about protecting Americans from terrorism. “How many more Americans ne...
Importing Terrorism and Other American Values
Americans keep being hectored to take “refugees” from terrorist-producing countries because to do otherwise would be “a betrayal of our values,” as President Obama said on Monday. The rise of Donald...
Blame for Planned Parenthood Killings Rests with Shooter
Blame for Planned Parenthood Killings Rests with Shooter Alone ‘No more baby parts.” As of this writing, that statement by Robert Lewis Dear is the only evidence that the “Planned Parenthood shooter”...
Why Pro-Lifers Oppose Violence Against Abortion Clinics
Though a million children are murdered each year, we remain non-violent. Here's why: Thanksgiving weekend was marred by news of a mass shooting at a shopping center in Colorado Springs, CO, which woun...
The most surprising thing about the Colorado Springs Shooting
This past Friday, a lunatic who lived in a shack with no running water or electricity killed three people in Colorado Springs, CO. He wound up going into a Planned Parenthood facility. Three people we...
Why the West Cannot Defeat ISIS
ISIS has probably been the subject of more wishful thinking in the West than any other foreign policy challenge since the Cold War. Some of the thinking has been useful, much of it is mere stupidity m...
Climate Change Conference
The Climate-Change Distraction in Paris Today in Paris, a city recently beset by one of the horrors of our time, world leaders will gather to address the issue of global warming, or climate change, or...
